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Jan Peek

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  1. My final thoughts on this topic: iOS uses this “sandbox” approach to file storage, unlike its big brothers, eg Linux, Windows and Mac OS. All of the grownup OS’s  allow the end user (practically) unrestricted access to the  file system. In Windows, for example, if  you want to delete system files, thereby blowing up your system, knock yourself out. You are an admin after all, whether you wanted to be or not. If you don’t save your work, well gee, that’s too bad.

    The thinking behind obscuring the inner workings of iOS is (I’m assuming) is that end users need protection from their own ignorance.  I see the sense in that. Most  users are not system guys. It only becomes a problem when you also drill into users that they don’t need to worry about managing and protecting their data. The app ‘takes care of that” for you! I don’t deny responsibility for shooting myself in the foot here.. it’s just that after 30+ years of experience designing  hardware and software I still stepped in the metaphorical dog shit and deleted (‘closed”) my project file, not something I would do intentionally, ever. Memory is cheap, (unlike in the bad old days),  time is not. Would it not be cheap and simple to create a project file in the cloud giving the naive user a fallback in the event of such an accident? Because accidents will always happen and we can all use some protection. (This also raises the issue iOS’s lack of comprehensive system backups, which would also save your bacon in such circumstances. A whole other topic.)

    Thanks to everyone who helped walk me through this. Your willingness to help makes it easier being a newbie.

  2. Thanks for your explanation. So I did delete that file. No big thing I guess since nobody was depending on it..

    In most professional applications, the opposite of close is open. Reversible. Kind of unfriendly to delete a lot of work based on a naive user choosing ‘close.

    I can’t believe I am the first (or last) newbie to make this mistake. It could be handled better by storing the source file outside the box in cloud storage.. That way the user would have to delete the file explicitly to lose it completely. 

    Do you know how to raise this suggestion with the Affinity design team?

  3. I had been working an image In AD for iPad for a couple of weeks and i assumed I was done With it  so I closed it. There were a LOT of layers in it  both raster and vector. Then, I was looking at a the png I had exported from It and thought I’d make a few changes to see if it was an improvement. So, longtime Windows  user that I am, I assumed I’d just find the ‘source’ file (am I dating myself here?) when I realized I didn’t know where to look for it. I might mention that this is the first time I followed a design all the way through to the end on iPad without working partly on my desktop machine or going to photoshop to finish up.
     

    So my question is: where is the original file and how do I re-open it? In Windows I always know where everything is, the file system is wide open. On iPad due to the great wisdom of St Steven of Cupertino this is not the case. I looked using the little file manager that is all you get on the iPad and all I could find in local storage, iCloud and Google Drive were my  jpg/png exports. Now I CLOSED the file but I didn’t DELETE it, right?  Or did I? I’m glad no $$ Are on the line here but it would be good to know if it’s possible to entrust serious work to AD on the iPad. The iPad Pro (sic) and the Apple Pencil are fun together but are they just cool toys?

  4. I am pretty new to AP, though I am familiar with Photoshop. If someone in the know can solve my newb problems I’d appreciate it.

    ‘When using selection tools the panel for the tool properties box pops up as to block the lower part of the image. The panel kind of skootches out of the way momentarily when you want to work under it, but this doesn’t really work to me. I need a clear view of the image I’m working on at all times. Is there a way to relocate this? If not this is probably a deal breaker for me. It’s beyond annoying.

    Also, the flood selection tool and the select sampled color tool don’t seem to do anything. I select the tools, the properties panel pops up , I apply my stylus to the image to no avail

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